Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-02-11
WHOLE NUMBER 1865.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Regular Correspondent.
Nv b1'IU1 WITH T'N''e'N'''F
WASHINGTON. Jan. %. lSSl.

1 out OF existence with Il good recort
. not withstanding what its critics sal
8 last session. 1t may not produce
. new tariff act, or stop the silver coin
. age at its present rate, but it has pre-
= vidcd against an intcrregnum in TIN
Presidential succession, it has settle,
the Electoral count controversy, ant
it has put into the hands of the Pres
ident an act for the regulation of inter
state commerce, for which the pcopl
, of certain sections have deem calling il
vain for years. 1t has also attended t,
some pressing needs in dozen othe
directions, whatever may have been it.
general conduct.
During the present week the Sen
ate has voted against woman suffrage
voted again against the confirmation
of Recorder of Deeds Matthews, voted
for closing the ports Of the United
States against Canadian imports, in
retaliation for England's violation OF
treaty obligation with regard to fisher
les, and t is now debating the question
of Agricultural Experiment Stations
The House is plodding over prosy ap.
preparation bills.
Senator Hoar created mild sensa-
ton in the Senate a few mornings
since by proposing q new rule. He is
outraged at the irreverance of the up
per house, and he asked that the SEN
ate shall not be called to order nor the
Chaplain's prayer proceed at any time
until quorum be present. He said it
was ridiculous and disgraceful spec
tacle, the daily delivery OF the invo-
cation in the presence of only three or
four Senators. If religious exercises
were to be continued they should be
decorous. If his proposition should
carry in both houses, it would greatly
disturb habits of long standing, and
perhaps lead to an abolition of the
Chaplain's Office altogether
For nineteen years the National
Woman's Rights Association has held
its sessions in Washington. For nine
teen successive years the prominent
advocates of woman suffrage have here
set forth their grievances, challenged
and condemned their oppressors, cher
ished their faith and renewed their
vows. For nineteen years Miss An
thony, Mrs. Sattuck, Mrs. Stanton,
Mrs. Hooker, Mrs. Howell, Mrs. Wal
lace, Mrs. Harbert, Mrs. Blake, Mrs.
Sewell, Miss Cousins and others have
appealed to Congress for the ballot,
have pressed the matter to a vote,
have hung over the galleries of the
House and Senate in earnest anticipa-
ton, and they have repeatedly seen
one house or the other vote down
their cause" as they saw the Senate
vote it dowa yesterday.
The fact that sixteen Senators of the
tifty-one then present in the Senate
chamber voted in their favor, while
they counted on the friendship of
eleven more who were absent, is con-
sidered IL great triumph. Miss An
thOny feels that the labors of lifetime
are now bearing appreciable fruit.
She realizes that twenty years ago her
| proposed constitutional amendment
would have been hooted out of the
Senate with derision. Ten years ago
it would not have Jared much better.
and five years ago she could not have
counted upon the approving votes of
sixteen Senators.
A friend of woman suffrage said to
Miss Anthony: "The trouble with
your cause is that it lacks political
vitality. Senators come and go and
Representative still more frequently
without regard to the merits or demer-
its of the principle of woman suffrage.
Could the question involved become a
direct issue before the people, and the
election of Senators and members be
made to turn on it, the result might
be different. No one is sent to Con-
gress as woman suffragist," contin-
ued he, all of them come uninstruct-
ed in the matter except by their own
prejudices, and SO they vote"
Miss Anthony read in convention
the names of those Senators who voted
for her bill, calling it the "roll of
honor from the Senate wing of the
Capitol" and then the names of those
opposed. The audience applauded
when she remarked that the new Sen.
ator, Mr.. Farwell, who occupies Gen.
Logan's former seat, cast his first vote
in the Senate for woman.
1t was decided to "spot" those Sen.
ators who had put themselves on re.
cord against this bill for woman, and
Miss Anthony remarked that if Sena.
tor ingalls, should be reelected from
Kansas it would be because the women
OF Kansas were pOwerlcss to defeat him
Tie would find ii party among his con.
Stitucnts that he had not counted
Dem.
Didn't Like a Baldheaded Baby.
st. Louis Chronicle.
Angel Darling-Mamma, where did
baby tome from?
Fond Mother-Papa bought him in
the market.
, A. D.-Why did'n him div ten cent.
more and dit one wifi hair OpS